Triumph
Lifer
- Oct 9, 1999
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You want to talk about ruining their brand name, let's start discussing Sears and the Craftsman sellout. Even hand tools are now being made overseas. I'm talking combination wrenches. I was shopping for toolboxes last year. The Craftsman stuff is absolute garbage. Yes they are having to compete with Harbor Freight, but if I'm going to be buying made in China garbage, then I'm not going to pay Sears prices. And the funny thing is, the HF toolboxes are actually REALLY good. Their orange boxes are easily on par with Craftsman's top of the line boxes.
Their penny pinching executives decided they needed to dumb down their products in order to compete on price. It made sense to them somewhere in the math. But they forgot to include in the proper value for the Craftsman name when doing the calculations. Now they are shit. I'll head to HF or craigslist the next time I need a tool.
Their penny pinching executives decided they needed to dumb down their products in order to compete on price. It made sense to them somewhere in the math. But they forgot to include in the proper value for the Craftsman name when doing the calculations. Now they are shit. I'll head to HF or craigslist the next time I need a tool.